God's Trombones


from the ABC set

Play the boogie-woogie chile on God's trombones:
they's jook toons from Genesis - to give a guy a jones.
Whistle up the Devil wit' a ragtime tune,
Jez'bel cake-walked Ahab clear across a room.
Sheba shook her shimmy like she-uz David's pet;
Bilhah glamoured Jacob wit' a vo-de-oh set.
The Babylon Baby blew like to be-bop born,
Delilah dipped a finger in a flugel-horn.
"Ah like a jump-jive woman", John the Baptist said -
Salome swayed it swing-time and she blew off his head,
the Good Book is fulla sinners' sweatin' syncopation,
'til Gabe blows his trumpet in the Book of Revelation.

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Comments

camilla | May 15, 2010 - 20:22

Your creativity is never ending. This should have a nice juicy cherry.